switch from svn to hg (mercurial)

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It would allow to add user modifications as server-side clones, a feature
of googlecode for mercurial:
http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=2946

For example, I have a collection of config.t2t to:
-convert --help output to t2t
-postproc tex target to allow beamer presentations
-add equation support to wiki/tex
and would really like to put them in a central place under version control.

Anyway the conversion is quite simple:
svn checkout http://txt2tags.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ txt2tags.svn
echo "aureliojargas=Aurélio Marinho Jargas" > authors
hg convert -A authors --datesort txt2tags.svn txt2tags.hg

So give it a try.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by christop...@gmail.com on 12 Dec 2009 at 1:21

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this one is similar to issue 30
One on the two should be marked as duplicate.

Original comment by eforg...@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2010 at 7:51

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Issue 30 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by aureliojargas@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2010 at 8:29

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Oh my, the merging doesn't merge the comments...

Original comment by aureliojargas@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2010 at 8:31

• Changed title: switch from svn to hg (mercurial)

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Pasting here an email from christoph.junghans, with more information:

maybe you should think about switching to mercurial as version control system 
(http://code.google.com/p/txt2tags/issues/detail?id=19) with release 2.6.

The commands are quite similar to svn:
<http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/03/a-subversion-users-guide-to-mercurial-version-
control/>

However it make it much easier to contribute consistent patches. And googlecode 
allows to host 'user versions' of txt2tags in mercurial, here: 
<http://code.google.com/p/txt2tags/source/clones>

Original comment by aureliojargas@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2010 at 9:42

• Added labels: Type-Task
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Christoph, about the config.t2t tricks: how about to store them in the new 
http://wiki.txt2tags.org ?

Original comment by aureliojargas@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2010 at 10:28

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I'll read more about Mercurial. I liked what I've read so far, thanks for 
bringing this out, here and in issue 30.

We must ask all the active developers for their opinion in this issue. This is 
an important decision that should be taken by the majority.

If you're a committer, please, raise your voice here.

Original comment by aureliojargas@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2010 at 10:28

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Two things convinced me to use Mercurial for my own project:

- this tutorial: http://hginit.com/ (really funny to read)
- the fact that Ben Collins-Sussman, one of the creators of SVN, is now using 
Mercurial for all of his repositories: http://code.google.com/u/sussman/

But in the case the majority would prefer to stay with SVN, I'd still be happy 
with it :)

Original comment by eforg...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2010 at 11:03